Weer voor Rotterdam ☀️ - 27-07-2026 07:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 18.4°C · Zonnig ☀️ | Min 18.1°C / Max 21.7°C | Kans op neerslag 43%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 18.1°C, Max 21.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 43%, 🧭 1016.8 hPa ↗️ +4.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: → 288°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 08:00: 18.8°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 67%, 🧭 1012.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: → 285°
• 09:00: 18.4°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 76%, 🧭 1013.3 hPa ↗️ +1.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: → 275°
• 10:00: 18.4°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 88%, 🧭 1014.3 hPa ↗️ +1.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: → 280°
• 11:00: 19.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 96%, 🧭 1015.2 hPa ↗️ +0.9 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: → 282°
• 12:00: 19.0°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 100%, 🧭 1015.8 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: → 277°
• 13:00: 19.4°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 100%, 🧭 1016.4 hPa ↗️ +0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: → 278°
• 14:00: 20.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 98%, 🧭 1016.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: → 285°
• 15:00: 20.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 77%, 🧭 1017.3 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 18.0 km/u (5.0 m/s), richting: → 289°
• 16:00: 20.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 48%, 🧭 1017.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 17.6 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 293°
• 17:00: 21.6°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 24%, 🧭 1017.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 297°
• 18:00: 21.7°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1018.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↘ 296°
• 19:00: 21.5°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1018.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 299°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• dinsdag 28 juli: Min 18.2°C, Max 29.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1019.8 hPa ↗️ +3.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↑ 191°
• woensdag 29 juli: Min 22.8°C, Max 33.0°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1016.0 hPa ↘️ -3.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↖ 152°
• donderdag 30 juli: Min 18.9°C, Max 26.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1014.7 hPa ↘️ -1.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.5 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 297°
• vrijdag 31 juli: Min 17.1°C, Max 25.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 14%, 🧭 1018.7 hPa ↗️ +4.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 43°
• zaterdag 01 augustus: Min 16.8°C, Max 25.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1020.4 hPa ↗️ +1.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.7 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↙ 50°
• zondag 02 augustus: Min 17.0°C, Max 27.5°C (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ⛅, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1017.8 hPa ↘️ -2.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.4 km/u (4.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 55°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 07:15): 18.4°C (Zonnig)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 18.0°C (-0.4°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: → 283°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 27.7 km/h (7.7 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 74%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1012.3 hPa ↗️ +2.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 17.9 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.5
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:57 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:40

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 31 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 3.4 μg/m³
• PM10: 8.7 μg/m³

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The Paramount-Warner Bros merger is being fought in the US and UK. Britain’s culture secretary knows the risks and can intervene. She should

Though it has yet to become front-page news in the UK, you should know about the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros merger. It threatens to inflict immense harm on the British public. As actors and public figures who have spent our careers in the arts in Britain – working with British crews, on British stages and sets – we have a responsibility to the public who support, enjoy and consume the art we make.

The UK is being threatened by a media merger that would harm our workers, our culture and the public – but we can stop it. We are encouraged by Lisa Nandy, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, who recently sent letters to Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery, as well as a statement to parliament, indicating that she is “minded to intervene” in Paramount’s $110bn takeover of Warner Bros.

Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong are actors working in the UK and Hollywood

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Exclusive: Judge intends to consider ‘terrorist connection’ after convicting five for damage to Barclays in Burnley

Five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists for breaking windows and throwing red paint at a branch of Barclays Bank in Lancashire.

Brendon O’Hagan, 28; Amanda Kelly, 31; Humeera Atiqnisar, 31; Mohammed Malik, 28; and Alma Yaniv, 70, were found guilty of causing £212,000 of damage during a direct action protest in Burnley in August 2024. They targeted the bank because it held shares in the Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems.

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Exclusive: Experts say policy could also cause shortages of school teachers and drive some universities to bankruptcy

Reform UK’s plan to make employers pay an annual levy for overseas staff would harm the NHS and social care, cause a shortage of schoolteachers, and could push some universities into bankruptcy, experts have warned.

Nigel Farage’s party has pledged a “migrant worker surcharge”, which would involve a higher rate of employer national insurance as well as a separate annual charge. It would apply to any employees without a UK passport, including EU nationals with settled status, with the exception of Irish passport holders.

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Fragrant, punchy vegan dishes that can be kept in the kept in the fridge or freezer for an easy midweek dinner

Whether you love it or loathe it, tofu is one of the most versatile ingredients in any kitchen. For me, it’s the saviour of stressful dinner times, because it cooks in minutes, absorbs flavour like no other and packs a real nutritional punch. Here, it plays two very different roles: crisped until golden in a fragrant, spice-infused Vietnamese-style pho, and mashed to give body and bite to bold, punchy Thai-ish fishless cakes.

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PM says that without rapid action the NHS could effectively collapse, in first full interview since entering No 10

Andy Burnham has pledged to use “whatever political capital I have” to finally fix the crumbling social care system in England, saying that without rapid action the NHS could effectively collapse.

In his first full interview since becoming prime minister last week, Burnham said he could not put a timetable on the arrival of a new system for social care but that its creation would take time.

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Severe wildfires can generate their own unique weather systems. One of the most striking examples of this are dangerous pyrocumulonimbus, or pyroCB, clouds

• Pedro Sánchez says Spain is suffering effects of climate crisis as firefighters battle wildfires in France

As France and Spain battle some of the worst wildfires in recent history, experts have warned of an unprecedented phenomenon that could exacerbate the effects of the blazes: pyrocumulonimbus, or “fire clouds”.

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Four decades after he and George Michael became the first western pop act to tour the country, Ridgeley recalls silent gigs, awkward embassy receptions – and the ‘bloody ludicrous’ hiring of Lindsay Anderson as director

There has always been something surreal about Wham!’s 1985 trip to China. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley looked like alien visitors on the streets of Beijing, their bouffant hair and flamboyant outfits setting them apart from the Mao jackets and drab uniforms of the Chinese people they encountered.

Now the full strangeness of the duo’s brief trip, which made them the first western pop act to play in the country, is explored in a fascinating documentary film, Wham! 10 Days in China. Using previously unseen archive footage and featuring new interviews with many of the people involved in the tour, it shows the extraordinary impact Wham!’s two concerts had on their Chinese audience, as well as providing a snapshot of a country on the brink of great change.

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New tariffs, gas price rises, the deaths of thousands, insecurity … We’re living at the whim of one capricious, vain, easily bored man and his gang of stooges

You would be forgiven, as the US and Iran traded strikes over the past few days, for thinking that it was only last month that the two signed the Islamabad Memorandum, which formalised the process of ending the war and established a 60-day period to negotiate the final terms of a deal. That’s because it was only last month. But there has been so much talk and bluster and strike and turn tail that the conflict feels like it has started and ended several times already. The whole war is only five months old but is already settling into a sort of permanent feature of life, one that is all repetitive theatre now, each act indistinguishable from the one before it to all but the most plugged-in observers. The war is over. The war is at its peak. The Iranians are brave people. The Iranians are scum, not least their leaders. The Iranians don’t want a ceasefire. The Iranians are begging for one. The strait of Hormuz is open, it is shut, it is partly open.

To recap, where we are now in the war that was only supposed to last a few weeks but is now entering its sixth month is that the US has expanded airstrikes on Iran in a “major military punishment”. Iran has once again struck US base targets located across the region. The Houthis have claimed their own blockade over a second shipping chokepoint – the war now extends from the Gulf to the Red Sea. Trump can’t get out. Iran now understands the powerful leverage of the strait and its geographical, and therefore military, advantage in controlling it. Trump cannot end the war with that bargaining chip in its hands and the Iranians will not end the war without it. He can’t withdraw on terms that merely restore the prewar status quo. And Trump can’t go all in. Boots on the ground would be an extended bloody campaign that would claim many lives. In the US, the deaths of 18 troops so far and how the Pentagon appears to be trying to undercount that number has triggered outrage.

Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist

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This crime drama about a female serial killer is enormously entertaining TV that demands you pay attention

Furious is well named. It is powered throughout its eight-episode run by an unfaltering current of female rage. It is the creation of Elizabeth Meriwether, who gave us last year’s astonishing Dying for Sex (starring Michelle Williams as a woman with terminal cancer discovering the range and depth of her sexuality for the first time) and 2022’s brisk, brilliant The Dropout (the tale of Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of blood-testing company, Theranos). They were both based on true stories. Furious was apparently inspired by the 1987 film Black Widow, starring Theresa Russell and Debra Winger, but it has jettisoned the marry-and-murder-for-money plot and contemporised the rest so thoroughly that the result hardly seems to merit the dutiful hat-tip the publicity has given it.

Meriwether is the writer of the first three episodes, the rest are divided among four women and one man. The drama itself is dominated by three complicated and fascinating female characters, played by Emmy Rossum, Lola Petticrew (who gave an extraordinary performance in 2024’s Say Nothing) and Quincy Tyler Bernstine. A fantastic supporting cast and a dense, lean, evocative script make this television for grownups, television to pay attention to and to entertain you enormously.

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Now back home, with Khalida’s mother, Nabul, at his side, the devastated couple are trying to comprehend what happened. Nabul struggles to hold back tears. She says her daughter had been taken out from their home under the cover of darkness and killed just a few hundred metres away.

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Sean Astin is showing me around his new office. There’s framed movie prints on the walls, piles of paperwork and a stack of boxes of Stranger Things Funko Pops. “If you were here, you could look out this window and see a 10-storey building with our iconic Sag-Aftra logo on it,” he says proudly on video call, gesturing out of the window to the Los Angeles skyline. “But you just have to trust me that it’s there.” He shows me a framed photo of his mother, Patty Duke, aged 16, with the best supporting actress Oscar she won in 1963 (for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker), and even more proudly, a framed copy of Duke’s business card from when she was president of the Screen Actors Guild in the mid-80s – the role he now occupies (Sag merged with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists in 2012). The 10 months of his presidency “has been a whirlwind”, he says.

It’s still slightly jarring to see Astin in a suit and tie, lanyard around his neck. We’re more accustomed to seeing him in the handwoven cloak and hairy feet of Samwise Gamgee, loyally accompanying mister Frodo into Mordor in The Lord of the Rings. Or as Winona Ryder’s short-lived partner in Stranger Things (before a Demodog got to him). Or as never-say-die college football underdog “Rudy” Ruettiger in the 1993 biopic. Or, for viewers of his own vintage, as plucky leader Mikey in The Goonies. Astin has been a member of the union he now represents for 45 of his 55 years, but he seems to have survived the perils of child stardom and a Hollywood upbringing remarkably unscathed. In fact, you could see it all as preparation for the role.

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Airports in England and Wales are likely to lose millions of passengers if third runway goes ahead, DfT economic paper shows

Expanding Heathrow airport will take thousands of jobs from other regions of the UK, including almost 10,000 from the West Midlands alone, according to an analysis of the government’s own forecasts.

An economic paper published by the Department for Transport last month shows that airports in England and Wales are likely to lose millions of passengers if Heathrow builds a third runway, in a significant blow to regional jobs.

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At least four people taken to hospital after gunfire at Seattle Center near Space Needle, with one reported to be in a critical condition

Two people were killed and five others wounded in a shooting on Sunday evening during a food festival at an events complex near the Space Needle in Seattle, a city fire department spokesperson said.

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Een dronken automobilist is vorige week opgepakt nadat hij slingerend over de A16 reed. Hij raakte meerdere keren de vangrail en reed over de middenberm.

Een dronken automobilist is vorige week opgepakt nadat hij slingerend over de A16 reed. Hij raakte meerdere keren de vangrail en reed over de middenberm.

Vanochtend is er veel bewolking met soms wat zon en kan er vooral landinwaarts nog een bui voorkomen. Op de meeste plekken blijft het gewoon droog. In de loop van de middag komt de zon er steeds vaker bij en uiteindelijk krijgen we mooie zonnige perioden. De middagtemperatuur komt uit op een graad of 22. Dat is wat aan de magere kant voor eind juli. Er staat een matige westenwind, met windkracht 3 of 4.

Als je met je elektrische auto op vakantie wilt dit jaar, moet je je beter voorbereiden dan je altijd deed met je benzineauto.

Laadprijzen zijn nergens in Europa zo gestandaardiseerd als benzineprijzen; ieder land, iedere aanbieder en zelfs iedere paal mag zijn eigen tarief rekenen. Publieke laadpalen rekenen gemiddeld tussen 0,30 en 0,80 euro per kWh, snelladers langs de snelweg zitten vaak tussen 0,40 en 0,90 euro per kWh. Daarbovenop komen soms starttarieven, minutenprijzen en parkeerkosten, waardoor een ogenschijnlijk goedkope kWh ineens een dure laadbeurt wordt.

Een voorbeeld: in Nederland kost snelladen gemiddeld rond de 0,62 euro per kWh, terwijl je thuis al gauw voor zo’n 0,28–0,30 euro per kWh laadt. Wie vooral op vakantie laadt aan snelladers, ziet de stroomrekening dus gemakkelijk verdubbelen vergeleken met een jaar lang thuisladen.

Zoveel kost een kWh in populaire vakantielanden

Onderstaande tabel laat de gemiddelde snellaadprijs in tien veelgekozen vakantielanden zien. Het gaat om snelladen langs de route; reguliere publieke palen zijn meestal iets goedkoper, thuisladen op de camping of bij je accommodatie vaak nog weer lager.

Denemarken is van deze populaire bestemmingen het goedkoopst om te snelladen, Duitsland het duurst. Het verschil tussen beide landen bedraagt 22 cent per kWh, wat bij een gemiddelde vakantieafstand flink aantikt.

In dit land betaal je bijna de helft meer

De kop vraagt om een land waar je bijna de helft meer betaalt dan in een ander populair vakantieland. Wie de tabel bekijkt, ziet dat Duitsland met 0,67 euro per kWh ver boven Denemarken (0,45 euro) uitsteekt. Dat is ongeveer 49 procent hoger: op elke kWh betaal je in Duitsland dus bijna de helft meer dan in het goedkoopste populaire vakantieland.

Voor een voorbeeldrit: een retour Utrecht–Ardèche in Frankrijk kost aan snelladen ongeveer 225 euro, uitgaande van een gemiddelde EV en alleen snelladen. Rijd je in plaats daarvan naar het Gardameer in Italië, dan loopt dat op tot zo’n 288 euro aan stroom, ruim 25 procent meer voor praktisch dezelfde afstand. Kies je bovendien voor duurdere trajecten of laadstations in Oostenrijk of Zwitserland langs je route, dan kunnen individuele laadbeurten boven 1 euro per kWh uitstijgen.

Zó reken je je echte vakantiekosten uit

Wie wil weten wat elektrisch rijden in het vakantieland werkelijk kost, kan grofweg zo rekenen: neem het verbruik van je auto (bijvoorbeeld 17 kWh per 100 km) en vermenigvuldig dit met de gemiddelde laadprijs in het land. In Denemarken (0,45 euro per kWh) kom je dan op circa 7,70 euro per 100 km; in Duitsland (0,67 euro per kWh) betaal je rond de 11,40 euro per 100 km voor dezelfde afstand.

Over een heen-en-weertje van 2.000 km scheelt dat al snel zo’n 74 euro puur aan laadkosten. Laad je tussendoor ook nog bij extreem dure palen (met minutenprijzen of hoge parkeertarieven), dan kan één ongelukkige laadbeurt oplopen tot honderden euro’s.

Praktische tips 

Wie met een elektrische auto op vakantie gaat, bespaart het meest door zoveel mogelijk thuis of op de bestemming langzaam te laden tegen het lokale stroomtarief. Snelladen langs de snelweg is vooral handig voor tijdwinst, maar nergens de goedkoopste optie. Adviseer lezers verder om vóór vertrek de laadtarieven in hun vakantieland te checken, een laadpas te kiezen met transparante prijzen en de auto niet onnodig lang aan dure palen te laten staan.

Een concrete insteek voor je blog: reken voor één of twee voorbeeldroutes (bijvoorbeeld Nederland–Denemarken en Nederland–Duitsland) de totale laadkosten uit bij verschillende laadstrategieën (alleen snelladen, mix met publieke palen, zoveel mogelijk thuisladen). Dat maakt het prijsverschil tussen landen én tussen laadvormen direct voelbaar voor je lezers.

Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph, calling the country's political speech laws "unusually stringent for an EU member state."
One German had his home raided for calling a minister a "Schwachkopf [dummy]" while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Merz a "lying Fritz" under a law that, critics claim, makes it effectively illegal to make fun of politicians. The number of investigations under Section 86a, the Nazi symbols ban... has more than doubled over the past decade according to official police statistics. Investigations into the "political insult" law also reached record levels in 2025. The surge in cases is so vast that the UN has launched an investigation into free speech violations in Germany, a step typically reserved for dictatorships and banana republics...
In one recent case, a pensioner was investigated under Section 188 for posting "Pinocchio is coming" on Facebook, after he learnt Friedrich Merz, the chancellor, was visiting his hometown... The case was dropped after the story caused an outcry in Germany, and police have since clarified that calling the chancellor Pinocchio is not a crime... In November 2024, police in Bavaria raided the home of another pensioner because he called Robert Habeck, the then vice-chancellor of Germany, a "schwachkopf", or dummy. The raid was reportedly launched after Mr Habeck personally filed a criminal complaint against the pensioner. Prosecutors eventually dropped the investigation after deciding that the insult "dummy" was not of "sufficient weight" to merit criminal charges.


While such cases might seem like bizarre outliers, there are plenty of others. In 2021, police raided a man's apartment in Hamburg after he told a senator "you're such a d---," and this year a resident was fined €2,000 for calling Mr Merz a "lying Fritz". Official figures show a record 4,792 Section 188 cases were filed in Germany in 2025, with the numbers rising by nearly 85 per cent between 2023 and 2025.
The article notes both left- and right-leaning free speech activists in Germany are calling for some of the stricter laws to be scrapped. And it adds that the uproar "bears some similarities to the free speech debate in Britain, where citizens have had a knock on the door from police over opinions posted online."

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